Rust Difficulty Curve

Rust difficulty curve difficulty time cool, rustust! cannot borrow immutable borrowed context `*` as mutable a little reference counting as a treat the heck is a COW? brb learning Haskell oh I get it Result<T,E> is a monad! wait async/await is a thing now? what * is switch? the sum publishes edition later

A hand-drawn graph shows the difficulty of learning Rust suddenly spiking as the learner encounters borrowing, references, copy-on-write, monads, and async/await. The joke is that Rust starts out approachable but becomes increasingly confusing as advanced concepts pile up, making it a relatable reaction for programmers struggling with the language.

• @profunctor_io / 4382 2020-04-09